None of this worked for me. I had been hopeful finding these threads and seeing I wasn't the only one with this problem, but after going through these steps for the third time (even after I had gotten the worm off my system) nothing is working. Limewire still opens every few seconds on it's own, and even when uninstalled it opens a message citing an error with an invalid file.

For me there was no 'winupdates' file to be found anywhere. I followed the advice found on Symantic's website for this particular worm, and Limewire is STILL spazzing out.

Help?

There are different variations of the virus you still have the virus Get avast and do a boot scan avast is free it will ask if you want to do a boot scan after you install it select yes .

You can get avast at the link below.


http://www.avast.com/eng/programs.html

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Im new to the forums and only joined because of this problem

My limewire was continually restarting until i deleted it completely from the computer and followed the steps. after i opened the taskmanager, there is no winupdate.exe or anything similar, and there is nothing using lots of processing apart from the System IDle processes one. i know there is still a problem though becuase my ctrl+alt+del doesnt work at all

if anyone knows what the problem is or can speculate to what it might be please let me know

Thanks for that, Grandpa. I'll give it a shot.

LukeG74

Try the suggestion in the link from me right above yours you probably have a virus. My guess is you downloaded and opened a file with a virus in it odds are it was 851.7kb in size.

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I've run the avast boot scan twice now, deleted at least six trojans (oye!) but I'm still getting limewire spazzing out.

I'm sorry to be such a bother - I used to think I was fairly decent with a computer. Should I just keep running the avast scan until it returns nothing, or is there something else I need to do with this?

Ouch you got it bad you may want to go to the Avast forum and ask what you need to do. There may be a removal tool for the particular virus you have. The link below will take you there.

Make sure you read the first 3 post they are very informative.


http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=4.0

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Ok thanks for the help guys as soon as i downloaded the avast thing i got this norton antivirus message, on another account on XP, asking permission to let 'msupdates.exe' to connect to the net, i know its a different name ot the winupdates.exe, but should i block it anyway, or might it be something important?

Doesn't matter do the boot scan

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Ok so i ran the Boot Scan with the Avast thing, and it did find and delete one file, but after coming back onto the computer i found that Ctrl+Alt+del still doesnt work, ialso got a warning from norton about something with 'ash' in the title attempting to access the internet, and it recommended i block always, which i did.

I then found i couldnt even connect onto the internet at all with the avast icons in my toolbars, i had to deactiviate it to get it to work.

So now that i have run the boot scan, is there somethin else for me to do?

You need to run the boot scan again and your Norton is corrupted and you need to uninstall it. After you get rid of the virus you can re install it. The (ash) is Avast virus updater and needs permission to update its virus data base. I have gone through the same thing you are before. I ended up reformatting my hard drive and re installing windows.

This usually is not necessary but I reformat regularly any way so I just did it I run my OS on C drive and everything else on other drives so when I reformat and re install I do not loose anything.

You may want to check out the link below it has allot of information about the viruses on the p2p network.

* WARNING: Viruses on network you should be aware of ! *

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Thanks for the help!

, ill run another boot scan today, and uninstall norton first.

before i do though, will tere be any problems re instaling Norton from disk? with registered CD Keys im a bit reluctant to uninstall the product.

finally when i run another boot scan, should i delete or repair the files that are dodgy?

thanks again for all who have helped

If you have you CD key you will have no problem, Repair the files if they can not be repaired quarantine them, It is not wise to delete Them though unlikely it could remove something your computer needs to operate.

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Alright. After spending two days searching the net and scanning my computer. I have deleted no less than THIRTY SIX THOUSAND infected objects.

Whatever worm (worms, really) I was attacked with put thousands of "movies" on my comp in zip archives. Thank goodness I wasn't stupid enough to unzip any of them once I finally found where they'd been hidden.

(Like a lot of people I made the mistake of having Norton on my comp. Fat lot of good that did me.)

I strongly suggest Ewido Security Suite. It saved my life - if not my sanity, because two days of running nearly non-stop virus scans will turn anyone batty.

Thanks Bobbie for the great help, i DID have the virus winupdates, and your Step by Step help was the easiest ever! Norton had not found it. however I tried AGV and it found all those zip files associated with that.

Easiest fix ever with help like yours. Bravo

Steve